Chapter 145: Tongtai is not Tongtai
Chen Tongtai, the shopkeeper of Chunhui Hall, rubbed his belly, thinking to himself why his name couldn't show his spirit, and now he was thinking about Tongtai...... Although Shaozhou City is not as prosperous as Changsha or even Guangzhou, it is said that it is staggered with the leading figures of Shaodao in the south, and even the iron stomach he has trained for decades is a little unbearable.
"This matter is done, I can also make a thousand taels of eight thousand taels, talk to the owner, take the door of the big proprietor, and donate an official, and no longer be ...... by the squint of those officials."
With a small abacus of happiness, pushing away the few jade lotus-like arms and legs pressed on his body, Chen Tongtai was about to go out of Gong, and subconsciously looked out of the balcony as he walked. This is Shaoxian Tower, the most upscale fat powder land in Shaozhou City, overlooking Wushui, Yuxian Bridge Pass is under the nose, this eye is not tight, the original swollen will fly with the soul.
"This ...... This...... What's going on!? ”
He rushed to the balcony, and for a moment, he thought of jumping directly from the two or three feet high building.
Most of the rice boats that were originally moored on the river bank are gone! The rest are all rocking the oars and hoisting the sails to the south.
"What is this doing!? What about the treasurers of the halls! What about the prefect, the overseer, and Bai Daolong!? ”
Chen Tongtai's soul was scattered, and he rushed downstairs without completing his robe and gown, and went straight to the river.
"Shopkeeper Lin! What are you doing here!? ”
When he arrived at the Jiang'an Wharf, he saw a familiar Hunan rice merchant shopkeeper blushing and shouting at the boatman to hurry up, Chen Tongtai couldn't wait to draw a knife and split this guy in half. Didn't everyone say it was okay? At least I have to wait for half a month to get out of the rice, and now this situation, but I am blatantly demolishing his platform, demolishing his platform is demolishing his owner's platform, demolishing the platform of the big proprietor behind his owner's house, so bold!
"Shopkeeper Chen, you saw the opportunity quickly, hum, in the future, the two of us will better not see each other again!"
When the shopkeeper saw Chen Tongtai, he also seemed to be angry, and he got on the boat perfunctorily, ignoring him.
"It's ...... What the hell is going on!? ”
Chen Tongtai jumped to his feet in anger, and then he realized something.
"What about my people? What about the people of Chunhui Hall! Are they all asleep? ”
After turning around the dock like a headless fly, he found a young man in his house, Chen Tongtai seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and roared at this kid who should have just woken up.
"Where's our rice boat? Didn't they arrange the soldiers to guard the ship, and drove all the boatmen to the shore to take care of them? And now what about this man!? What about the ship!? ”
The boy struggled to open his eyes, which were covered in, and let the shopkeeper shake in a daze.
"Shopkeeper Chen! Big things are wrong! Our soldiers were knocked unconscious and tied up, and the boatmen ran away! ”
Finally, a group of companions rushed to the dock, drenched in sweat, and it was time to look for him.
"What...... Where did the water bandits come from......"
The filth in Chen Tongtai's stomach seemed to be recoiled into his brain, and his whole brain was dizzy when he buzzed.
"Aren't our 60,000 stone meters here divided into more than a dozen big sand boats, and last night I don't know where the water bandits came from, tied up all our soldiers, and the boatmen were also driven to the boat, and drove the boat away!"
The words of the companion are as ethereal as the sky, but Chen Tongtai is an old businessman, and when it comes to numbers, his mind quickly dragged back. He understood, his Chunhui Hall's rice boat moved first, and the other business shopkeepers thought that he secretly went to get the rice first, and then didn't follow, and when the price of rice fell, they would lose money, so they all rushed to the south in a panic.
"These pig brains! Our Chunhui Hall is not a good person and a fool, why should we go against ourselves!? Besides, there are still our people blocking the Jiangkou......"
When Chen Tongtai said this, he stopped abruptly, it was a fine sweat on his forehead, which would become a bead of sweat the size of a bean.
"Lianjiangkou!?"
He looked to the south, and his heart seemed to be pressed by ten thousand catties of lead.
"Even Jiangkou, something must have happened, and the 30,000 stone meters we put on the Taiping Bridge are estimated to have been stolen."
Holding on to the churning hot current in his chest, Chen Tongtai waved his sleeves, connected his fingers, and beckoned: "Follow me to find Bai Daolong, which of you will go to the Shaozhou Mansion again and report the theft!" Who is so bold, I already have a little calculation, and it's not over yet! Then the clippers chased after the shopkeepers of those businesses and told them that someone was doing this, so don't fall for the poisonous plan of the thieves! ”
Chen Tongtai clenched his fists, and his eyes were cold: "I still have a chance!" ”
On a fishing boat near the wharf, a fisherwoman wearing a tattered cloth dress and whose face was pressed by a hat straightened up, and suddenly revealed a slender curve, and her long legs were even more unusual than the ordinary fisherwoman.
"That's him, right?"
The "fisherwoman" asked in a low voice.
"That's right, the shopkeeper of Chunhui Hall, called Chen Tongtai, I met him in Xunhui a year ago, and he is stirring up everything here."
Behind the "fisherwoman" was a fisherman, who replied respectfully.
"The name...... Yes, he will not be punished, and my thoughts will not be clear. ”
"Fisherwoman" said hatefully.
"Master, the general secretary of this matter...... Really know? ”
The young man was still frowning, obviously disagreeing with his "master's" calculations.
"He's busy with his big things, such small things, he doesn't care, I do."
The "fisherwoman" looked back at the boy.
"Besides, I also joined the guard, what kind of teaching wing commander did he give me, there should be someone to listen to what he said."
The young man couldn't answer this question, so he scratched his head and smirked, saying in his heart that he didn't mention this, not even your character and prestige, just about your relationship with the general director, and no one dared to disobey you...... "So...... Do it! ”
Yan Sanniang ordered, and with a wave of his hand, several young men dressed as beggars walked out of the cabin and hurriedly chased after Chen Tongtai.
"Let's not say that you ignored the suffering of the Li people and entangled the officials and businessmen to hoard rice for profit, let's just say that you also set people up to block the river and hurt me...... He, both public and private, I can't let people like you live anymore! ”
Yan Sanniang's burning gaze grabbed the back, and whispered in her heart.
Flying to the Gorge, looking at the steep and strange colors on both sides of the strait, Li Xian felt comfortable, he was the first time to see the scenery of Guangdong three hundred years ago, and now he has not yet flown to the Gorge Reservoir, and the shadows of the mountains cover the river, and the blue sky curtain that originally had no feeling is more lofty and vast after this support.
"What the hell is Sanniang tinkering with?"
In addition to sighing, Li Xi also regretted that there was no one to share, and subconsciously thought of his two beauties, one big and one small. This is a serious matter, Guan Xuan can't keep up, and Yan Sanniang asked him for the title of Siwei with a straight face before, as if he really wanted to bury his head in the great cause of rebellion, regardless of the love of his children, but made him respect her by three points. Anyway, people are around, and now the big things are important, and I really can't think about how many bases I can go to.
Therefore, Yan Sanniang became his serious subordinate and followed him to participate in this "robber journey". It's a pity that after the Shaozhou incident was completed, Yan Sanniang said that she had some personal matters to do, and she didn't follow him down the river to the south.
"I don't know, the chief secretary, you also explained that Luo Tangyuan and a few boys followed her, so nothing should happen."
Yu Hanyi guessed Li Shi's thoughts, that is, he was worried about Yan Sanniang.
With the assurance of others, Li Xi was also more relieved. It is estimated that nothing will happen, she has shown her skills in last night's operation, whether it is the guards who pack up the ship, or the soldiers who subdue the shipwright, they are all in the spearhead. Such a martial arts master is used on the blade, and the sneak attack is as easy as cutting butter.
"But...... This kind of thing can't be done again. ”
Out of machismo and compassion, Li Xi didn't want his woman to become the leader of the special forces, no matter how high her martial arts were, she was not superhuman, and there were always accidents.
"Just grabbed it directly, is there really no problem?"
Peng Xianzhong on his side was still stunned.
was attacked at Lianjiangkou before, and Li Shi was provoked, so he set up this poisonous plan. The action plan is simple. Since Chunhuitang and even many of the businesses involved in rice hoarding were improvised, and they were in a hurry, they didn't have any big boats in their hands, so they hired big boats from Beijiang to carry rice, and it happened that most of them were members of the Beijiang Boat Company that Li Shi had integrated before, which gave Li Xi a great opportunity.
Li Shi summoned the seven heads of the previous Beijiang boat company and threatened that if he did not cooperate with the action, he would be able to earn the money for this boat, and he would not want to cross the Beijiang River in the future. Then they didn't have to worry, not only did the fare pay according to the boat, but no one had settled accounts with them after the autumn, so the owner of the Beijiang Boat Company obediently cooperated with Li Shi's action.
The boat was able to follow him, but Chunhuitang's boat was guarded by guards, and the boatmen were also gathered on the shore to supervise, so Li Xi took the "special attack team" to Yuxian Bridge Pass, cleaned up these guards, and robbed all the rice boats in Chunhuitang. This made the shopkeepers of other businesses mistakenly think that Chunhuitang was acting alone, and they all hurriedly drove the boat out of the rice.
The blockade line of Lianjiangkou had already been flattened by Li Xian, and this trip was no longer hindered, and it was smooth and smooth, and after seeing Feilai Gorge, he continued to travel towards Sanjiangkou.
With 1440,000 stone meters in the Lianjiang section of Li Xian, plus 90,000 stones robbed from the two bridges of Xian Taiping, Li Xi has mastered 2340,000 stone meters with one hand, which is enough to suppress the price of rice in Guangzhou alone. And the rice merchants who followed after him still had more than 100,000 stones in their hands, and it was impossible for the price of rice in Guangdong to remain high.
"That's it, the rest of the beginnings and tails, someone will clean up for us."
Li Xi pointed to the ship in front of him, and the flag of "Governor and Governor in charge of Yingde County affairs, Li" hanging under the sail was fluttering in the wind.
"General Division, the clipper with the Shaozhou town mark behind is chasing after you!"
The subordinates hurriedly reported, and when they came to the shipbuilding on the stern of the Dasha boat, they saw a "white" flag also floating high, Li Xian smiled, "Lao Bai still knows current affairs." ”
On the big boat full of sails, Zhou Ning carefully observed Bai Daolong, who was closing his eyes and contemplating.
"This Li Xi is really ...... Bossy! This time, he made me less than 10,000 taels of silver! ”
Bai Daolong finally spoke out with hatred.
"Li boy, if he dares not to make up for it, he will give him a good look! But ......"
Zhou Ning also responded hatefully, and then changed his tone.
"Chunhui Hall's Chen Tongtai is also too much, directly take Zongrong's boat to block the river, if the Taiwan Constitution is guilty and step down, it is better to say, they have to survive this hurdle, Zongrong, you will be in big trouble."
Bai Daolong snorted and forcibly defended himself: "I'm just a negligent ...... at most."
Zhou Ning didn't dare to say anything deeper, only secretly slandered, if it wasn't for Li Xi asking me to inform you, the price of rice would definitely be washed down, and you were still fooled by Chen Tongtai, not to mention making money, you will lose your future. After this incident, you should also see clearly, on the ground in northern Guangdong, who should you follow.
"The fourth brother is a believer, this time the matter is done, and the boat owner will be in the bag, follow him, everyone is in harmony, why not be happy......"
Thinking about the amount of silver he could collect every year, Zhou Ning couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.
(To be continued)